Quote from: Chris Thauberger on September 18, 2019, 06:51:52 PM
Vanishing Point.. favorite movie as a kid.
Kowalski's 1970 Challenger
Nice Hard Top.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Chris Thauberger on September 18, 2019, 06:51:52 PM
Vanishing Point.. favorite movie as a kid.
Kowalski's 1970 Challenger
Quote from: Richstang on September 18, 2019, 08:06:21 PMQuote from: Side-Oilers on September 18, 2019, 07:28:56 PM
It's not a movie car, but one that most anyone who watched TV in 1968-69 will remember...Mannix's Dart GTS 340 convertible, with subtle "kustom" work by Barris.
I loved it then, and it's in my garage now. Tracked it down ten years ago and bought it.
Then I got in touch with Mannix star Mike Connors and reunited him with the car for a magazine article and TV segment I did.
That day, the inner kid in me had a lifelong dream come true. Pretty cool feeling.
Nice one Van!
It looks like a car Dodge could have made. Barris didn't go overboard on that one.
Neat story that you hunted and found it.
The signed photo of the reunion is a fantastic memento from that day!
Quote from: deathsled on September 16, 2019, 06:14:11 PM
As additional commentary to this lawyer, I contend that he was in his heyday during the 1960s. The 1960s was a period of time when auto racing, street racing and muscle cars/ sports cars of all kinds patrolled the streets. You weren't anyone as a guy unless you had some modicum of interest in said subject matter (or at least was aware of it). I further add that the number one hit, Hey Little Cobra was number one for a week, so unless this guy was exclusively into Baroque music, how could he not know about that song. I play classical and romantic era music on the piano but you can be damned sure I know who Led Zeppelin is, Pantera, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Guns n Roses, Metallica, Soundgarden, Audioslave and so on. Was there not a minimal amount of inquiry merited to ask, "Hey, what's this hey little Cobra song all about?" Apparently not. I'm just a dumb Canadian having grown up in Canada, somewhat insular from U.S. culture and even I knew what a Cobra was when I started high school in 1977! And one more thing, anyone that ever tells me "Oh that was way before my time." My response is "So were dinosaurs. Are you going to tell me you don't know what a dinosaur is?" That is usually met with silence. Whatever the Supreme Court did and who they are and were is not part of the national conscious. Shelby brought a hell of a lot more joy to people's lives (Enzo Ferrari excepted of course) than the members of the Supreme Court. All they bring is pain and more restrictions and curtailments on what we can and cannot do. Lawyers and judges kinda suck in a way. Carroll Shelby should be better known in my opinion. Living back in the 60s in your heyday as a youth and not knowing such things is like swimming in the ocean and being totally unaware of sharks. That's my two cents for what it's worth which, in this case, is apparently two cents.
Richard E.
Quote from: deathsled on September 15, 2019, 05:26:30 PMQuote from: Side-Oilers on September 15, 2019, 04:17:46 PMThanks for the invite, Van. I need to get out to California again sometime. It's tough to get away from the practice though when things get scheduled for court. I have to plan weeks if not months in advance just to get away.
I hear you, Richard, and I agree with what you've said.
Better to have what looks like a pretty decent car movie about Shelby, et al, than to either have no movie at all, or have it suck like virtually every car movie in recent memory.
You're right also that this feels like an old style man's movie. We need more of those. Something to put the Prius owners' panties in a wad.
As a fan of CS and his exploits, I'll take this as a 90% victory and enjoy it.
Van
PS: I'm going to see the original feature-length "Grand Prix" at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood next weekend, on the giant 86-foot curved screen. I saw it there, back in the day, when I was a little kid and it helped forged my love of racing. Come out and I'll treat you to a ticket.
https://www.arclightcinemas.com/learn-more/dome-21